NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 60% (1710MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (760.3GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

8064 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 320W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 +2071%

29.77 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

320bit

Memory Bus

128bit

760.3GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

68

SM Count

-

8704

Shading Units

640

272

TMUs

40

96

ROPs

16

272

Tensor Cores

-

68

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

465.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

29.77 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

29.77 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

465.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Board Design

320W

TDP

60W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Baffin

GA102-200-KD-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

3 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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